Books, Books, and more Books! discussion
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Guess the First Sentence!
Catcher in the Rye?"Warning: If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious-but it's all I can say right now."
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"THERE IS ONE mirror in my house."
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It's Divergent! I'd recognize that anywhere!Hmmm...
"In these dungeons the darkness was complete, but ----- had a map in her mind,"
Sorry, but it had her name there, so I had to cut it out.
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I don't know what that sentence is from.
It's from Graceling. It's not a very memorable first sentence, is it? The only reason I put it down is because I had it in my hand because I was rereading it.
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I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into frozen air.
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I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.
Okay, my turn. :) In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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My turn:
"The screw through _____'s ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangles circle."
Cinder. "I spent my eighteenth birthday driving from New York City to Eden, Michigan, so my mother could die in the town where she was born."
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"_____ was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought _____ `without pictures or conversation?'"
I remember this from somewhere. Dang it, I think I had to read this in school.
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"The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer"
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"First the colors."
The book thief"The grease-slicked hair is a dead giveaway—no pun intended."
Anna dressed in blood???"One minute the teacher was talking about the civil war,and the next minute he was gone."
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
To kill a mocking bird!!!!"It was a dry,warm night,and Stanley Collins had decided to walk home after the Boy Scouts meeting."
The Vampire`s Assistant"the circus arrives without warning."
The night circus (Good book!))"I know it is impossible,but I'm floating down the hall. The emptiness echoes,the walls press close"
Fall to Pieces"Here is everything I know about France: Madeline adn Amelie and Moulin Rouge."
((It was dreadful sorry not Fall to pieces))Anna and the French kiss??
"I have lived more than a thousand years. I have died countless times. I forget precisely how many times. My memory is an extraordinary thing,but it is not perfect. I am human"
(Oh well :/)My Name is Memory?
"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary thing began to happen."
The nine lives of Chloe king?(I'm not sure if it is :/))"my dad left when I still had a month to go in the dark room,and historically when people have tried to figure me out(as in,"what went wrong?"),they usually conclude that Mom spoiled me;gave me everything I wanted because I had no pappy.
(It was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)Staying Fat?
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better of reading some other book."
A bad beginning?" "Touch him",Natalie whispered. "Go put your arms on his shoulders" I slid my chair back into the shadows of earls country burger arcade "Are you kidding?" "
The Summer of no Regrets"The first time I saw him, a heavy, gray fog clung to the cornfields, tails of mist slithering between the dying stalks."
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"In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees."
Unearthly"America McCutcheon better known to her friends as Amy,swished her feather duster over the already-pristine leather-bound volumes on the shelf."
Red Hills Stranger?"I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves."
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'I'd never given much thought to how I would die-though I'd had reason enough in the last few months-but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.'
Basically, you grab the nearest book and write down the first sentence. The next person has to guess it.
Example
Person 1: "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
Person 2: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."
Person 3: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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I'll start
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."